PRAGOTI

Eminent historian Eric Hobsbawm makes a statement after a controversy was created in The Telegraph newspaper (and lapped up by others) following the publication of an interview of his in the New Left Review magazine.

 "Our party has the maximum experience amongst communist parties of working in a democratic set up. We believe that even in socialism there should be a multi-party system." Prakash Karat says in a wide-ranging interview with BBC Hindi, obtained by Open Magazine. 

The interview is linked here. 

 On the 6th of November, 2009, Left View conducted a discussion recently on the Maoists' Role in India Today featuring the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Prakash Karat and eminent economist at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Prof. Jayati Ghosh.The meeting was chaired by Prabir Purkayastha of the Delhi Science Forum 

The video recordings of the talks are linked in this post. An unedited transcript of the video (for those who don't have broadband) is attached along with the post. UPDATE- A Tamil translation of Prakash Karat's speech is also attached (courtesy Sa.Veeramani ) UPDATE 2 - A Bengali translation is available here. UPDATE 3 - A Malayalam translation is available here. 

INTERVIEW WITH Prakash Karat, courtesy INN.

'Left Will Vote Against Govt'

The Left parties will vote against the Manmohan Singh government in the vote of confidence because of its betrayal of national interests, asserted CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat. The Left will continue working to ensure that the India-US nuclear deal does not get operationalised during the tenure of this government. Charging the Congress of failing to check communal forces, he said the CPI(M) and Left parties will continue to combat the Hindutva and communal forces.